Browsing: Marc Staal

Spend Monday here at Rangers Report for wall-to-wall NHL Trade Deadline coverage and conversation, including a Live Chat from MSG. Click here for the boxscore with links to the game summary, etc. Thoughts: 1) I’m not breaking any news to you guys in saying this loss was overdue. It’s been…

Click here to see a cool new place for Rangers players’ bios and fun info at the team’s Blueshirts United site. (Photo above to honor NBC, which surely will show an entire clip package of Flyers-Rangers fights before the game tonight) Pre-game notes courtesy of the NYR: NEW YORK RANGERS…

Click here to read my story from lohud.com. Click here for the boxscore with links to the game summary, etc. Click here for Alain Vigneault’s post-game press confernce video. Thoughts: 1) So what would you rather watch, a buttoned-down, structured struggle like Tuesday’s 1-0 win over Calgary or last night’s…

[polldaddy poll=8685017 align=”left”] Game 60. Coyotes at Rangers. Something’s fishy. The Rangers are on MSG+ again tonight, while a St. Francis-LIU/Brooklyn basketball game gets MSG. The Rangers finish their three-game homestand and play their next-to-last game before the trade deadline tonight. They are in Philly for an NBC prime-time…

Click here to read my story from lohud.com. Click here to see Alain Vigneault’s post-game press conference. Thoughts: 1) Good thing there are shootouts in this league because that would have been an awful tie. 2) How in the world do the Rangers, against a guy (Curtis McElhinney) who fought…

Post-game notes & quotes courtesy of the NYR: Rangers 4, Blue Jackets 3 (shootout). Click here for boxscore, with links to game summary, etc. – POINT TAKEN – The Rangers extended their point streak to eight games (6-0-2 record over the span), tying a season-high (the Rangers posted an…

Thoughts: 1) The Rangers sure didn’t play this way in front of Cam Talbot the last five or six games. On the other hand, they weren’t playing the god-awful Baby Buffaloes in those games. That said, against some lousy teams and some good teams, the Rangers hung out Talbot to…

Post-game notes courtesy of the NYR: Rangers 3, Sabres 1. Click here for boxscore. – POINT TAKEN – The Rangers extended their point streak to seven games (5-0-2 record over the span), and they have earned at least one point in 10 of their last 11 games (8-1-2). New…

Click here for my game story from lohud.com. Thoughts: 1) It’s so cold I saw a politician with his hands in his own pockets. It’s so cold, I was in traffic and some guy flipped me the mitten. 2) Ah, yes, the shootout. You know how I feel about it…

Before we get to Mats Zuccarello’s impending free agency, a couple of PSAs: Starting today, it’s Hockey Weekend in New York, and the Rangers are all over it, including several events being held here in the Westchester-Rockland-Putnam area and environs. See the announcement below for details. Tonight, at 10:30 on…

First, let’s try our first Live Chat in the new blog format, today at noon. Fingers crossed. I think it will work. So be there. Or else. Thoughts: 1) I don’t even know where to begin. I really don’t. This will be a review that just trips over itself with…

Post-game notes courtesy of the NYR: Rangers 6, Islanders 5. Click here for boxscore. – The Rangers extended their winning streak to four games, and they won all four games during their four-game road trip. The Blueshirts have won 27 of their last 37 games (27-9-1), including 25 of…

Thoughts: 1) I just find this stat fascinating. The Rangers have had four trips of three games or more and they are 12-1 in those games. No, don’t ask me to explain it. 2) Admit it. You’re not as worried about the next three, four, five weeks, or whatever it…

Post-game notes courtesy of the NYR: Rangers 5, Coyotes 1. Click here for boxscore. – The Rangers extended their winning streak to three games, and they have posted a 3-0-0 record thus far on their four-game road trip. The Blueshirts have won 26 of their last 36 games (26-9-1),…

Thoughts: 1) Gonna get this out of the way quickly. These last three games the Rangers played … they got five points, but games like these usually lead to losing streaks. There are usually warning signs before a team goes into a tailspin, just as there are signs when a…